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Far Behind
03:28
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FAR BEHIND
Let’s escape this place tonight March across this frozen river Safely to the shore together
To the warm glow of the city lights
Before they know, we’ll be away Pulled by what once kept us apart Alone with all these stars
A broken compass points the way
And the dustiest streets cracking under your feet To the rhythm of the cartwheels going by
And if I can’t find you, I will remind you
To meet me in the city of the night
And I’ll keep your dreams with mine You can’t be far behind
My message will still ring true Written in a life so long
I want to sing it in a song
So I can hold you
This city is a magical place Joyful tears illuminated
By the power generated By the smile on your face
And the further we get from the last place we left The easier it will seem to be
And the farther we travel the more we unravel The more we're beginning to see
And I’ll keep your dreams with mine You can’t be far behind
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2. |
Another Round
02:33
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ANOTHER ROUND
Everyone knows what you’re after, chasing storms wherever you go
You say I’m a disaster, a category hurricane four
Your kind of love
It’s just what I need
Hand over head
Head over feet
Tumbling down
Were both gonna do what we’re meant to do
I’ll go another round with you
You can’t predict I’ll run a straight line
Only touching down in the end
No damage is done in the heartland
I’ll come to rest but you won’t know when
If you wiling to wait, I’ll be late but be there
Willing to wait
Willing to work it out
Willing to let is pass
You know what I’m all about
Your kind of love
It’s just what I need
Hand over head
Head over feet
Tumbling down
I’ll go another round with you
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3. |
How I Know
03:45
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4. |
Standing at My Door
02:28
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STANDING AT MY DOOR
I didn’t mean to lead you on
Maybe I should have said goodbye
But all my words came out wrong
And now they’re standing at my door tonight
Now I see what brought you here
And all the miles you had to fly
All that distance disappeared
With you standing at my door tonight
So I’m sorry, sorry that I’m gonna let you down
But I’m not the one that took that flight
And I know you were hoping for
The best night of your life
I didn’t mean to lead you here
Where all your stars have now aligned
And all my words have come out wrong
And now they’re standing at my door tonight
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5. |
Melting
02:52
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MELTING
You came back in November
As cold as the weather
Everything freezing so fast
Trying to get back the feeling
From the heat you’d been stealing
We both knew that it couldn’t last
It’s a long way to walk through the snow
To fan the flames of a love you already know
For me it is frozen in time
And melting won’t make you mine
I took the chill from your hands dear
But still you couldn’t get warm here
Frost on the tears in your eye
As the Spring thaws the spirit
You could already hear it
The sound of my saying good-bye
It’s a long way to walk through the snow
To fan the flames of a love you already know
For me it is frozen in time
And melting won’t make you mine
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AFTER THE SURVEILLANCE STATE
Before I see you tonight
And I want to say your name
Before we start drinking
Before the song takes you away
When you are still a little shy
When it is hard to raise a smile
Before the flashing lights
Before the flashing lights
Sights pinned on the prize
Under curfew city at night
Pursed lips and street lit eyes
Sharp turns and straight lines
This plan is set in motion
We’ll blow the whole thing wide open
Hear the whistle blow
Through the blue green ocean
After the surveillance state
After we wake this giant
After they’re running scared
After they see all our numbers
They’ll sound the air raid sirens
They’ll sound the air raid sirens
Now that we are almost free
Before I see you tonight
And I am lost for you
Before the all seeing eye
Knows everything we do
This plan is set in motion
We’ll blow this whole thing wide open
Hear the whistle blow
Through the blue green ocean
After the surveillance state
After we wake this giant
After they’re running scared
After they see all our numbers
They’ll sound the air raid sirens
They’ll sound the air raid sirens
Now that we are almost free, let’s make a run for it.
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7. |
Closer Than You Know
02:23
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CLOSER THAN YOU KNOW
Out of my league
Leap into the big sky
Into the deep
When we're together
Whatever the weather
When we're laughing
See us together
Just when we set off the spark
And it's a raging fire
A fire rising like moonlight out of the dark
We're closer than you know
We're closer than you know
I'm holding out for you now
We're closer than you know
I held out my hand
Just like the first time
When we first began
And even after a thousand years
Your smile will still haunt me where I stand
When we're laughing
See us together
Chasing the dawn from the night
When we're laughing
Like it's forever
But forever is in our sight
We're closer than you know
We're closer than you know
I'm holding out for you now
We're closer than you know
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8. |
Human
03:44
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HUMAN
When you think you are free
But you’re still not free to think
When your mind is being read
It’s hard to draw a blank
When everything is new
It can change your whole world view
So how do you see it
When you know you’ve been lied to?
You’re learning to be
Learning to be
Learning to be human
You would die for the regime
When you’re born to love the king
Like a puppet on a string
Believing they could do anything to you
A fish is not aware of water
And will drown out in the air
In a world that is your prison
They say it’s way worse way out there
If you learn to count your money
You won’t need to go to school
People pushed against a cage
Will learn to bend the rules
If you start to speak your mind
You’ll be target number one
So become so famous they cannot hurt you
And keep on keeping on
So follow that star to freedom
Till you become that star
That leads to books, to songs, to news, to movies
To speak to who we are
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9. |
The Leaves of Autumn
03:00
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LYRICS
THE LEAVES OF AUTUMN
The stars here burn so brightly
Billions of light years away
See the ghosts of stars long gone
Feel the depths of the milky way
First light creeps in slowly
You wonder what might be revealed
As a new scene opens up
That nights curtain had concealed
And the first taste of fall colours
Melts like honey to a tongue
And the golden light is morning light
Shining on the leaves of autumn
All the leaves of autumn
All the leaves of fall
Painters capture what they can
But they can’t compete
With the gentle hand of natures command
Of colours we can barely speak
It’s a big bouquet by the full light of day
It’s a flare at sundown
With crimson blush and a burgundy burst
When the breeze blows the leaves around
And the season turns when the red leaves burn
And the maple trees retire
And the birch bark knows when cold wind blows
The snow is soon to fly, fly
All the leaves of autumn
All the leaves of fall
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10. |
Where I'm Meant to Be
04:16
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WHERE I’M MEANT TO BE (JAMES TOOLEY PRISON SONG)
My work is for the downtrodden children of this nation
From the poorest of the poor, to the black market generation
I’m commonly known as the Indiana Jones of education
The detective took my statement in a distracted sort of way
Telling me there is nothing to fear and this will all soon go away
Now I’m a prisoner waiting bail for a bribe I refused to pay
The local inmates gather round when I arrive
I’ll have to pull myself together here if I want to stay alive
But right away they share their food and everything I need to survive
I wake up to the alarm of the morning call to prayer
The most terrifying wistful sound that will stay with me from there
Like the howls of cats screeching crescendos in the cold night air
I will write my prison story down in the margins of this book
Around the great words of Gandhi and the chances that he took
And all of us are guilty and the others they are crooked and corrupt
It was never my intention for this to be my legacy
So where I am today is not where I’m meant to be
We sit in the shade of a fruit tree
My newfound friends and I on sheets of cardboard around me
And nobody feels fear only friendship over a cup of tea
You can lose yourself completely in a crowded prison cell
Yet no one here appears to be sorry for themselves
They say we’ll all be out tomorrow but they’re joking I can surely tell
The days blur all together the simple pleasures they are few
Freedom’s not a word for nothing left to lose
When everything is gone the only one left is you
It was never my intention for this to be my legacy
So where I am today is not where I’m meant to be
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11. |
Force of Nature
02:38
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FORCE OF NATURE
There's a river running deep through the old plateau
And a force of the nature can't be stopped or slowed
You learn the pattern of the wind blowing wild across the plain
Feel the beating of the sun and the pulsing in your veins
And in the heart of all this darkness there's a thundering sound
And you can see it in the rain and hear it rumbling in the ground
You feel it pounding in your head
And you taste it in your blood
And it's telling you to keep moving
And get ready for the flood
There's a break in the dam and a crack in the earth
And how many deaths will rise from its berth?
And crumble the statues of men that are broken
And take back the dreams they had stolen
And the ones who try to stop it will be lost in the flood
As the river drowns them out and they are buried in the mud
They'll be forgotten in the pages of their own history
And their legacy will fall to myth and mystery
There's a river running deep through the old plateau
And you can't stop the water or the melting of the snow
A force like this can’t be organized or planned
You can't stop a force of nature bringing freedom to the land
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12. |
L'Anse aux Meadows
04:21
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L’ANSE AUX MEADOWS
Few had tried
Dared to dream
Till the day we sailed the seas
Some of us never to return
Some secrets left untold
And I will see you there
In the meadows of Vinland
In the dew by the brook
Where my love and I did lay
Where the clear waters flow
Where our baby was born
And I will dream of you
And or sweet baby
In L'Anse aux Meadows
In L'Anse aux Meadows
So the story goes
Where coals fires embers glow
In the whispering wind
By the meadows of Vinland
Our new home in Newfoundland
And I will dream of you in L'Anse aux Meadows
As we stand here today
Where the iron turns to gold
Some secrets still remain
Locked in the soil
And I will dream of you
When they lay my bones in L'Anse aux Meadows
In L'Anse aux Meadows
So the story goes
Where coals fires embers glow
In the whispering wind
By the meadows of Vinland
Our new home in Newfoundland
And I will dream of you in L'Anse aux Meadows
Íslands þúsund ár,
Íslands þúsund ár!
eitt eilífðar smáblóm með titrandi tár,
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13. |
Artist of Life
03:00
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ARTIST OF LIFE
Tender white hands
You’d sear the only work she knew was love
Stony green eyes
You’d sear she watched the only work she knew
Slip through those fingers
But the pictures she paints are alive
With the colour of a love that lingers
In the room up the stair
In the soul living there
In the heart of an artist of life
Temple bells ring
A melancholy beauty in their hollow timbre
Memories thrive
On sounds that were alive the day that they were born,
Remember
That the sadness you feel is the child
Of a beauty of a love so tender
That survives up the stair
In the soul living there
In the heart of an artist of life
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Lindy Vopnfjord Toronto, Ontario
State of the Heart reflects not only Lindy's personal evolution toward a new love and revolution as a tighter songwriter, but also his fledgling partnership with producer Danny Michel, who breathes new life into Lindy’s style by imbuing his signature folk sound with a modern feel. ... more
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